The Press: Traceable to Tracy?

In Omaha, 17 parking meters were wrenched from the curb and spirited
away. In Savannah, an estimated 150 meters were broken open and looted.
In both cities, police voiced the dark suspicion that Dick Tracy
himself, the fearless comic-strip detective, had inspired these petty
robberies. The strip, which appears in some 350 papers, has been
showing a gang of teen-age hoodlums at work yanking up meters and
taking them to a remote spot to rifle them. Tracy's creator, Chicago
Tribune Cartoonist Chester Gould, pleaded not guilty. Said he: "Most of
the crimes that old Dick Tracy contends with are as old...